Heinz Lucas

Heinz Lucas ( born August 10, 1920 in Berlin ) is a former German football coach and has lived since October 1, 2009 at Seniorenstift Rosenhof in Erkrath east of Dusseldorf.

Career

Player

Heinz Lucas learned the ABC Football in Berlin at Charlottenburg FC Hertha 1906. After the Second World War, he worked for several years in southern Germany at the clubs Bayern Kitzingen, Ulm 1846 and FV Würzburg 04 as a player. In 1951 he returned to Berlin and even played two years as a contract player at the Berlin SV from 1892 and graduated in the city Berlin 22 league games. At the same time he began his coaching career in 1951 when CFC Hertha 06

Coach, 1953-1981

From 1953-56 Lucas coached the Oberliga Berlin Wacker 04 Berlin. In 1955, he had successfully completed the training to become football coach. This was followed by two rounds with Minerva 93 Berlin, before the Football Oberliga Nord, he worked as a coach from the round 1958/59. The first stop was the VfR Neumünster, where he oversaw four rounds, the Purple and Whites from VfR Stadium at the city park until 1962. In the last year of the old class Oberligen Systems, 1962/63, the football coach tried at Hannover 96 in vain it, but still lead the " Red " by a superior final round in the new Bundesliga from the 1963/64. In league German football coach he practiced from 1961 to 1964 in the Association Group North the post of chairman of.

At the beginning of the new Bundesliga era and also of the new leagues substructure through the regional leagues, 1963/64, he was first vertragslos. From 15 February 1964, he took over the fighting for relegation in the Football League North VfB Lübeck and supervised the Green-Whites from Lohmühle Stadium until 1968. Afterwards led to his career in southern Germany, he took the round in 1968/69 SV Darmstadt 98 in the Football Regionalliga Süd. With the lilies of the stadium on Böllenfalltor he rose from 1970 in the Hessian Amateur camp, but remained with his move to Fortuna Dusseldorf as a coach in the Regionalliga. On 1 July 1970 he took over Fortuna Dusseldorf in the Football Regionalliga West and rose a year later with the Fortuna to the Bundesliga. When President Bruno right out Fortuna he succeeds Otto Knefler, who had each reached the fourth place in the West in the years 1969 and 1970.

Time in Dusseldorf was the most successful in his coaching career. In the first year 1970/71, his Fortuna, VfL Bochum delivered with coach Hermann Eppenhoff and the Wuppertal SV with coach Horst Buhtz a thrilling three-way battle at the top for a place in the Bundesliga promotion round. Bochum was spot right in front of Lucas 's team champion and the team from Stadion am Zoo, the WSV, had to wait another year before the Oberbergi in 1972 with 60:8 points in the league and 16-0 points in the promotion round of the Bundesliga rise perfectly could make. With the attackers Reiner Geye ( 34-25 ) and Dieter Herzog ( 34-13 ) had had two stockings for the offensive in the squad Lucas. In the promotion round was the competition from Neunkirchen, St. Pauli, Nuremberg and Wacker 04 Berlin without a chance. With the BL- newcomer Lucas managed to 1971/72 on the 13th place in the league. When finally Gerd Zewe and Wolfgang Seel reinforced his team, he climbed to the Fortuna in the years 1973 and 1974, twice third in the Bundesliga. His activity in Dusseldorf ended on 22 April 1975. On April 18, he left with a 2-0 home victory against 1 FC Kaiserslautern, with 32:24 points on the eighth placed on the Fortuna. Evening celebrated Lucas, who was one of the few stars among the many Fortuna trainers, together with board and players in Benrather court his departure. He joined in the same month in 1860 Munich from the Südstaffel the 2nd Bundesliga in place of Max Merkel his new post. Also the promotion to the Bundesliga with the " lions " he succeeded in 1977 by three playoffs against Arminia Bielefeld ( 2:0 0:4; ; 4:0). After the relegation 1977/78 did not succeed and also the mission revival were unsuccessful, ended his work as a trainer in Munich on 31 December 1978. As a coach of Eintracht Braunschweig (from 27 March 1979) he left on October 8, 1979 permanently from the Bundesliga. He then coached in the 2nd Bundesliga still the Wuppertal SV (1 January 1980-30. April 1980) and the SpVgg Fürth (1 March 1981-30. June 1981).